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NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Type-Based MCMC
Percy Liang, Michael I. Jordan, Dan Klein
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Learning Translation Boundaries for Phrase-Based Decoding
Constrained decoding is of great importance not only for speed but also for translation quality. Previous efforts explore soft syntactic constraints which are based on constituent...
Deyi Xiong, Min Zhang, Haizhou Li
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Ensemble Models for Dependency Parsing: Cheap and Good?
Previous work on dependency parsing used various kinds of combination models but a systematic analysis and comparison of these approaches is lacking. In this paper we implemented ...
Mihai Surdeanu, Christopher D. Manning
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Everybody loves a rich cousin: An empirical study of transliteration through bridge languages
Most state of the art approaches for machine transliteration are data driven and require significant parallel names corpora between languages. As a result, developing transliterat...
Mitesh M. Khapra, A. Kumaran, Pushpak Bhattacharyy...
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Generalizing Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation using Rules with Adjacent Nonterminals
Hierarchical phrase-based translation (Hiero, (Chiang, 2005)) provides an attractive framework within which both short- and longdistance reorderings can be addressed consistently ...
Hendra Setiawan, Philip Resnik
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Bitext-Based Resolution of German Subject-Object Ambiguities
We present a method for disambiguating syntactic subjects from syntactic objects (a frequent ambiguity) in German sentences taken from an English-German bitext. We exploit the fac...
Florian Schwarck, Alexander Fraser, Hinrich Sch&uu...
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Minimally-Supervised Extraction of Entities from Text Advertisements
Extraction of entities from ad creatives is an important problem that can benefit many computational advertising tasks. Supervised and semi-supervised solutions rely on labeled da...
Sameer Singh, Dustin Hillard, Chris Leggetter
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Movie Reviews and Revenues: An Experiment in Text Regression
We consider the problem of predicting a movie's opening weekend revenue. Previous work on this problem has used metadata about a movie--e.g., its genre, MPAA rating, and cast...
Mahesh Joshi, Dipanjan Das, Kevin Gimpel, Noah A. ...
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Detecting Emails Containing Requests for Action
Automatically finding email messages that contain requests for action can provide valuable assistance to users who otherwise struggle to give appropriate attention to the actionab...
Andrew Lampert, Robert Dale, Cécile Paris
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Painless Unsupervised Learning with Features
We show how features can easily be added to standard generative models for unsupervised learning, without requiring complex new training methods. In particular, each component mul...
Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Alexandre Bouchard-C&ocir...